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Collaborative development of phyloseq on GitHub. Official stable release of phyloseq on Bioconductor. Advances in DNA sequencing technology have dramatically improved the scope and scale of culture-independent investigations into microbial communities. There are effective software tools available to process raw DNA … Continue reading →

At this Monday’s Montreal R User Group meeting, Arthur Charpentier gave an interesting talk on the subject of quantile regression. One of the main messages I took away from the workshop was that quantile regression can be used to determine if extreme events are becoming more extreme. The example given was hurricane intensity since 1978.

Karthik Ram gave an Introduction to R a couple of weeks ago, and I strongly recommend you to take a look at his cool HTML5 slides. I started trying HTML5 slides last year, and now it is difficult for me to go back to beamer, which I have used for a few...

As anyone who's ever played Civilization knows, the advent of sailboats capable of crossing the oceans leads to an explosion of exploration, commerce and social development. And with the visualization below, you can see that explosion in action: Ben Schmidt used the R language and data recorded in by hand in ship logs to create the animation above. Like...

The image below isn't a bearskin rug in the shape of the USA. It's fact, it's a visualization of the wind flowing over the United States, as of 4PM EDT today, March 30. You can click through to see the current wind conditions, based on latest data from the National Digital Forecast Database. But more importantly, as long as...

Google has again accepted R as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code. R has successfully participated in GSoC in multiple previous years, and is excited to be returning this year as a mentoring organization. In a nutshell: If you are a student looking to write some code for the R community, Google is willing to pay you...

Hm, I realized that I
announced this on Google+ (via Rcpp) as well as
on Twitter,
on the r-packages list,
wrote a new and simple web page for it,
but had not put it on my blog. So here is some catching up.
Sequential Monte Carlo / Particle Filter
is ...

How does the political landscape of Europe change over time? One way to approach this question is to map the socio-economic left-right positions of the governments in power. So let’s plot the changing ideological positions of the governments using data … Continue reading →

I was writing comments on the blog post A proposal for a really fast statistics journal, and I realized the comment box was too small to write down my ideas. I like the proposal a lot, and I feel really bad about the current model of submitting and rev...